Allied Race model updates you'd like to see

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Some of the allied races are really lacking in the customization option department and I’m looking for more opinions on what people would like to see.

A few things I’d like to see personally are -

Lightforged Draenei:

  • Fix the hair on the scalp. It’s like they’re bald underneath their hair for whatever reason?
  • Hair physics for their hair!! It’s so static and it makes me so sad. It looks so wrong.
  • More skin tones! Why only three? And why are they all almost the same shade of white? Sure Blizzard can be more creative with this. I know they’re “Lightforged” but come on.

Dark Iron Dwarves

  • The male’s left eye doesn’t glow properly, similar to the Blood Elf eye glow problem.

Void Elves

  • Purple eye colors. They’re full of void! Plus the blue makes them look blind which is even more weird
  • Warning Controversial Opinion - High Elf skin tones. This is my personally opinion, but if Blizzard won’t add High Elves then I feel like these should be added to please people.
  • Add some void tattoos. I’m not even sure why they don’t have any to begin with.

Nightborne

  • Give the option to have the slinted eyes the NPCs have.
  • More hairstyles. I think they have it the worst out of all the allied races. Not to mention they all have extremely weird hair lines.
  • Maybe add a few more skin tones? They only have three… I’m sure there’s room for shades of blue/purple that can fit in between the current ones.

Highmountain Tauren

  • More hairstyles! This is also an issue for the original Tauren.
  • More face options. This is also a problem the original Tauren have as well, there’s very little variance in the faces and it makes me feel bad for our cow friends.
  • 4 skin tones? You can at least mix the fur colors and give them double the about, easily.

Honorable Night Elf Mention
During the war campaign I noticed a bunch of Night Elves using a hair that isn’t available to the players. I think players should get this option!
https://i.imgur.com/2VJ75SO.png

Anyone else have things they’d like to see? These are my personal gripes but I’d like to know what other people think.

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I noticed the hairstyle not being an option either for night elves. : ( It’s so cute!

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Zandalari troll male - I currently swim entirely above the water. So I’d fix my buoyancy point, or however they define that function.

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That’s actually kinda hilarious. I had no clue the Zandalari trolls had a problem like that lol

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Void elf’s could use some more skin options imo

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The main one is the Dark Iron Dwarf males whose left eye is totally messed up:

https://i.imgur.com/yNyUeCz.jpg

Also, not a model update, but Lightforged Draenei need to be able to smelt old ores with their Forge of Light.

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I had no idea this was a thing! I’ll add this to the list

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I don’t even play or have any interest in playing a Nightborne, but I’d love for Blizzard to simply spend their time and resources giving fans and players of NB their NPC models we saw during Legion. I don’t even mind if that means they won’t get around to adjusting Zandalari’s swimming animation while above water for a while.

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Yeah I’d like some NPC model options.

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Kul’Tiran

  • Their heads are completely bald beneath hats and helms.
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i want the nightborne dudes to not look like… That. closer to the suramar NPCs instead of like the california raisins

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Zandalari don’t have a “pretty” face option like the regular trolls do - all of their faces are nasty and warty and hook-nosed. I want a zandalari druid that doesn’t look awful when she isn’t shape-shifted, please!

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I’d like to see NB get mana hair like the npcs have. Just an interesting glow/sheen. And, of course, to look less like nelfs and more like the NB npcs- those giant eyeballs bug me so much when the npcs have such cool almond eyes. Really I just miss their noble smugness. :confused:

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I don’t even play nightborne but I’ve always found the fact they only have 3 skin tones pretty bad

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Pretty much these for me. Also, the model fixes for Nightborne in general to make them look more like the NPCs.

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I’d like to see some more vibrant and wild hairstyles and colors for Zandalari

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Nightborne is the one that saddens me the most as they were the ones I was most excited for. The male modeI I wanted to play as but they look absolutely nothing like their npc to me.

I saw that night elf hairstyle too and it got me excited, that one was put in the game back when wod was current, but was never made usable… along with hairstyles for many of the other races. Most weren’t too good looking except that night elf and a super super cute gnome one! Maybe someday we will see some more hairstyles. :blush:

The new allied races hair look very nice texturally! I want a braid for my human female.

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Night elf males should get a complete rework, I seriously think they looked great before the rework, now they look weird, with that forward neck huge legs, small feet and extremely big hands.
Also, if humans could look, well, more human, that would be great too.

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… and in case of an emergency, your Troll Alt can be used as a flotation device. That concludes the safety presentation. Thank you for flying Zandalar Air.

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Nightborne almost need a complete model revamp. I can’t believe how bad they look.

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